top of page
Exlpore more Reality quotes

"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
Explore more quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

"Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them."

"In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway."

"How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It's no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired."

"I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about."

"It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined."
bottom of page